{"id":5503,"date":"2023-02-24T04:08:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T04:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2023-02-24T06:20:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T06:20:21","slug":"dennis-walks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5503","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Walks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Dennis Vassell<\/b>, better known as\u00a0<b>Dennis Walks<\/b>, is a\u00a0Jamaican\u00a0reggae\u00a0singer, best known for his work with\u00a0Harry Mudie\u00a0in the late 1960s and 1970s. His stage name was given to him by\u00a0Roy Shirley.<sup id=\"cite_ref-unitedreggae.com_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Walks first recorded in 1963 for\u00a0Duke Reid\u00a0at\u00a0Treasure Isle.<sup id=\"cite_ref-unitedreggae.com_1-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0In the late 1960s, he recorded for producer\u00a0Joe Gibbs\u00a0(&#8220;Having a Party&#8221;), but is best known for his recordings with producer Harry Mudie; &#8220;The Drifter&#8221; and &#8220;Heart Don&#8217;t Leap&#8221; were both big hit singles in Jamaica.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Foster_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0In 1974 he had another hit with &#8220;Margaret&#8221;, backed by the Mudie&#8217;s All Stars, which formed the basis of\u00a0Lennie Hibbert&#8217;s &#8220;Margaret&#8217;s Dream&#8221;.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Larkin_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0In 1975 he had a hit on the UK reggae charts with &#8220;Sad Sweet Dreamer&#8221; and a reissue of &#8220;Margaret&#8221;.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Larkin_3-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Walks&#8217; debut album\u00a0<i>Meet Dennis Walks<\/i>, collecting several of his earlier hits, was released on the Moodisc label in 1976. The &#8220;Drifter&#8221; rhythm has been recorded on by several artists over the years, including versions of &#8220;The Drifter&#8221; by\u00a0Dennis Brown\u00a0and\u00a0Cornell Campbell, a\u00a0deejay\u00a0version by\u00a0I Roy, and\u00a0<i>Reggae Bible (Book of Drifters)<\/i>, an entire album based on the track.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Walks\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Vassell, better known as\u00a0Dennis Walks, is a\u00a0Jamaican\u00a0reggae\u00a0singer, best known for his work with\u00a0Harry Mudie\u00a0in the late 1960s and 1970s. His stage name was given to him by\u00a0Roy Shirley. Walks first recorded in 1963 for\u00a0Duke Reid\u00a0at\u00a0Treasure Isle.\u00a0In the late 1960s, he recorded for producer\u00a0Joe Gibbs\u00a0(&#8220;Having a Party&#8221;), but is best known for his recordings with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reggae-icons","tag-facts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5516,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions\/5516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}